December 21, 2010

By that new count, Texas will gain four seats, Florida will gain two, while New York and Ohio each lose two. Fourteen other states gained or lost one seat. The gainers included Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina and Utah, and the losers included Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts and New Jersey....

Mr. Obama won eight of the nine states that are expected to lose seats, including Illinois, New York and Ohio. And of the eight states that were expected to gain one seat or more, five were carried by the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona.

While Republicans will see their biggest and most lasting political gains in the House of Representatives, the landscape for the next presidential race will add another layer of complication to Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign. The battleground state of Florida, which he carried in 2008, will become even more critical to his efforts to win a second term and to Republican attempts to defeat him.

Toss out the illegals and 2nd gen spawn of past amnestied or anchor baby progeny and you have less Americans born than even in the Depression.

A sign of the future: The educational survey that said we rank 28th in the world in educational attainment. But if we sort Americans racially:

Asian Americans would be 2nd in the world in net educational attainment.White Americans would rank 7th.Hispanic Americans would be 41st, or 52nd if corrected for high dropout rates of the dumbest and least motivated (and part of the Hispanic numbers reflect high white attainment by white Cubans and white immigrants south of the Border because "Hispanic" is an artificial race created by two US lawyers in the EEO in the 60s).

Blacks in America rank 48th globally in education attainment, corrected to 61st for HS students tested when corrected for dropouts.

The global study also showed little linkage between spending and educational attainment.

If we want to be a competitive, highly educated nation with a high standard of living, we should not only put up a Southern border fence, we should mine it, turn most the Somalis and Haitian refugees back....and take in talented Indians and Asians and Europeans lined up still to get into America.

Or get ready to rethink being a democracy if voting is between a shrinking block of producers and a growing block of parasites and their lawyers.

I don't get why the number of representatives is locked in at 435. It may be time to take another look at that hard limit. Really, 1 rep per 700,000+ people is getting close to going against the intent of the Constitution.

Sure...maybe they need a bigger building to hold all of those reps. But if the Vikings can ask for a new playing field, I'm sure Congress could do the same.

Word on the Beaubien Street in Detroit is Mayor Dave Bing is going to have himself a good old fashioned Land Rush for the unassigned vacant property that once was the City of Detroit. No word if the Volt will be the vehicle of choice to grab this re-country-fied praire land.